Man suffers fractured ankle as Calder Valley mountain team called out to rescue
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At 9.07pm on Tuesday July 9, the Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team received a request from Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to help with the treatment and evacuation of a man who had suffered with a lower leg injury.
A total of 26 CVSRT members were deployed in team vehicles direct from a team training exercise, only a short distance away at Ogden Water.
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Hide AdParamedics, assisted by CVSRT members, assessed the injury and provided pain relief, before realigning and splinting the fractured ankle.
The casualty was then transferred to a stretcher and carried a short distance to an awaiting ambulance to be taken to hospital.